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It’s not a typical union-management battle: One of the
\n nation’s largest nursing home companies is charging that some Haitian
\n workers at its Wakefield facility voted to form a union because they
\n believed if they did not, a co-worker would use voodoo against them. <\/p>\n
Harborside Healthcare at Wakefield cq, a nursing and rehabilitation
\n center, formally objected to the workers’ recent vote to unionize, saying
\n an
\n employee, Marie Chery cq, threatened co-workers who refused to vote for
\n the union with voodoo, possibly swaying the election. <\/p>\n
The battle comes as Haitian religious leaders and advocates are aggressively
\n seeking to improve working conditions in nursing homes. Advocates say
\n Haitians make up about 80 percent of nursing home employees throughout
\n greater Boston, and their workplaces have become a key battleground
\n for union organizers.<\/p>\n
‘They lost the election 2 to 1 so they had to trump up charges," Celia
\n Wcislo, president of Local 2020, said to the angry crowd of about 75
\n that circled outside 1 Beacon St., the site of a Harborside corporate
\n office. Some protesters carried signs that said ”Voodoo doesn’t win
\n elections. Workers do." <\/p>\n
Ah, but thousands of impoverished workers motivated by Voodoo, now that’s Actually, this Full disclosure – In our own personal from the Boston Globe<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s not a typical union-management battle: One of the nation’s largest nursing home companies is charging that some Haitian workers at its Wakefield facility voted to form a union because they believed if they did not, a co-worker would use … Continue reading
\n a prescription for winning elections! Just ask Papa Doc, if you have
\n a line to the hereafter. <\/em><\/p>\n
\n Voodoo stuff<\/a> might work out well for the nursing home industry. We
\n can see it now, competition for patients based on the power and majesty
\n of the competing voodoo priests and priestesses. "Tutuba’s Golden Autumn
\n Rest Home features a personal and long-standing arrangement with Ogou
\n Balanjo (voodoo Spirit of Healing) to protect all our patients from the
\n dreaded Baron Samedi (Guardian of the Grave.)"<\/em><\/p>\n
\n hierarchy of Caribbean cults, we have always preferred Rastafarianism
\n to Voodoo. Note to children: make sure we end up in a Rasta Rest Home,
\n por favor. Jah, out….
\n <\/em> <\/p>\n